republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1583.md

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Bill	Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties.	Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (ii) who communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, discharging of a firearm within or at, or damage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony, provided, however, that if such person is under 18 years of age, he is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, any person 15 years of age or older (a) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (b) who communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, or damage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1583	Virginia HB 1583 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jason S. Ballard	5	46	13	2025-01-01	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/9170b99d-2201-4632-9828-cc6c565e1e72	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1583	401d99874e92637df292b45bd0939e54021bb897e6a5048ebafbf279ca7602fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1583 (2025) — Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties.

Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (ii) who communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, discharging of a firearm within or at, or damage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony, provided, however, that if such person is under 18 years of age, he is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, any person 15 years of age or older (a) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, or in any manner damage any place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation or (b) who communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, or damage to any such place of assembly, building or other structure, or means of transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House (2-Y 95-N) — 2–95 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason S. Ballard — primary (person)
• A.C. Cordoza — cosponsor (person)
• Amanda E. Batten — cosponsor (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Bill Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• David Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Delores Oates — cosponsor (person)
• Ellen H. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Geary Higgins — cosponsor (person)
• H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Hillary Pugh Kent — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• N. Baxter Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Paul V. Milde — cosponsor (person)
• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Scott A. Wyatt — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
• Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Will Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103755D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-01 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-09 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1583)
• 2025-01-29 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25107383D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-13 Impact statement from VCSC (HB1583)
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute rejected by House (2-Y 95-N)
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1583)
• 2025-02-20 Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Perry, Salim, McDougle
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Simon, Feggans, Ballard
• 2025-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1583ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1583)
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 368 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9170b99d-2201-4632-9828-cc6c565e1e72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).